单词 | delegable |
释义 | delegableadj. Capable of being delegated; that may be delegated. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > delegated or entrusted to a deputy > able to be delegablea1617 a1617 P. Baynes Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) (ii. 13) 303 A good Priests chiefe efficacie in pardoning, standeth in his intreating God to pardon; therefore he hath no power judicially to doe it, no, this power is not delegable to creatures. 1660 R. Sheringham Kings Supremacy Asserted viii. 96 The Legislative power is delegable. 1886 E. B. Andrews Brief Inst. Constit. Hist. v. 111 The thought of ultimate political power as inhering in the people and only partially delegable to government..Englishmen then, in their idolatry of parliament, had scarcely brought to consciousness. 2019 Financial Planning (Nexis) Mar. I am all for delegation of delegable tasks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1617 |
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